Watch Live: President Obama Holds Press Conference on Progress of War on ISIL
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“Our air campaign continues to hammer ISIL targets. More than 14,000 strikes so far.” —@POTUS on combating ISIL pic.twitter.com/8Mzt5WjBoI
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 4, 2016
“With our extraordinary technologies, we’re conducting the most precise air campaign in history.” —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 4, 2016
ISIL continues to lose senior commanders, & territory in both Iraq & Syria. The US will continue this progress. pic.twitter.com/orTGSHWrgn
— WH National Security (@NSC44) August 4, 2016
Is this the most Trumpian interview response yet? https://t.co/AbInv8gjvb pic.twitter.com/m4mB4LuKFV
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) August 4, 2016
It’s a standard beauty pageant answer…good grief
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s a standard beauty pageant answer…good grief
There isn’t gonna be a swimsuit competition, is there?
[ shudder ]
“I want to repeat—ISIL has not had a major successful offensive operation in either Syria or Iraq in a full year.” —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 4, 2016
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well he does/did run one of those didn’t he?
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s a standard beauty pageant answer…good grief
Well, after he nukes everyone, it’ll be real peaceful, I guess.
Hillary Clinton surges to 15-point lead in new McClatchy-Marist poll:
Clinton 48
Trump 33https://t.co/pv5khRTj3l— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) August 4, 2016
Via @agearan Republicans are among a new list of foreign policy experts denouncing Trumphttps://t.co/tmz6mJeDVr pic.twitter.com/5b60G8YB3P
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 4, 2016
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s a standard beauty pageant answer…good grief
LOLOLOL, emphasis mine:
Through Trump’s rise, fall and rebirth, there was one major real estate project that he tried to keep. The tale of what happened to that property should be of interest to anyone looking for insight into how Trump might perform as president. It was a deal of genuine magnitude and would have put him atop the New York real estate market. And he screwed it up.
The deal involved Manhattan’s West Side Yards, a sprawling, 77-acre tract abutting the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets and at the time the largest privately owned undeveloped stretch of land in New York City. […]
He also got in a fight with then-mayor Ed Koch. It’s quite an entertaining read.
You know what we didn’t hear in Donald Trump’s speech today? Any boasting about poll numbers.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 4, 2016
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Thank you for letting us know, Mr. President. I really think it’d be helpful for us to hear this more often.
Speaking of getting bombed… it’s a fifteen-point lead now, if Marist is to be believed.
re: #13 A Cranky One
About the protesters holding up pocket Constitutions at the Trump rally: I loved John Oliver’s description of Khans action: “an American founding document being inspirationally used as a middle finger…”
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And deservedly so.
LEAVE DONALD TRUMP ALOOOOONE!!!!
re: #13 A Cranky One
About the protesters holding up pocket Constitutions at the Trump rally: I loved John Oliver’s description of Khans action: “an American founding document being inspirationally used as a middle finger…”
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And deservedly so.
Hey, put that Constitution down! We’re the only ones who can fly the flag and wave the Constitution because we’re Patriots!!!
Obama getting ready to troll Trump again, in part two of Reuters’ question…
Obama can talk about all the bombing attacks on ISIL, but we all know that the bombs won’t work unless “radical Islamic terrorism” is written on the bombs.
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I received the random TSA pre check. Blessed. Orlando airport is crazy.
I was preparing this comment for the last thread when it indicated a new thread started. It goes to a tweet VB put up by Bennie “Brainless” Shapiro after he saw MSNBC posting a screen chyron saying Trump really didn’t see an Iran video.
Ben Shapiro ✔ @benshapiro
I look forward to the MSNBC chyron, “HILLARY CLINTON LIES (AGAIN) ABOUT FBI SAYING SHE WAS ‘TRUTHFUL’”
3:34 PM - 4 Aug 2016
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I am so damn sick of Clinton email bullshit.
If anyone needs a good link to a good fact check site about the 3…yes three goddamn emails in question he is one you can use to pound people over the head with…even if it does no good, show them anyway.
And of those three, 2 were considered by FBI Director Comey as easy to miss and easy to mistake. Even the last of the three is questionable.
As Rep. John Lewis said to Comey (paraphrased) out of 30,000 emails all you found were three emails?
But the media never says anything about that.
Here is the link…
factcheck.org - Revisiting Clinton and Classified Information
Here is basically a summary at the beginning of the article:
At his July 5 press conference, FBI Director James Comey said a “very small number” of emails sent and received by Hillary Clinton over her private server “bore markings indicating the presence of classified information” — contradicting Clinton’s claims that she “never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.”
But now we are learning more about those emails from Comey, who testified before the House Oversight Committee on July 7, and State Department spokesman John Kirby, who addressed these emails at press briefings on July 6 and 7:
Comey said three emails had “portion markings” on them indicating that they were classified, but they were not properly marked and therefore could have been missed by Clinton. He said the emails were marked as classified with the letter “C” in the body of the email.
Kirby said the State Department believes that at least two of the emails were mistakenly marked as confidential. He could not speak to the third email, saying the department didn’t have “all of the records and documents that the FBI used in their investigation.”
Comey told the committee he is “highly confident” that FBI investigators consulted with the State Department about the marked emails. But he said he did not know that the department believes that any of them were marked in error.
The issue is a bit complicated, but important, because it provides Clinton with a stronger defense against claims that she sent and received material that was marked as classified over her private server when she was secretary of state.
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re: #9 Charles Johnson
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Interesting - the journalist managed to copy and paste the URL of their inbox, rather than the actual poll: mail.google.com
Also, ha ha!
Polls take a day or two to put together, and people also take a few days after seeing a candidate saying something really dumb before changing their mind….Trumps falling in the polls still has a ways to go from the stupid stuff he’s said this week.
@Charles Johnson:
You said that UpChuck was following lizards on Twitter, what’s his current username so I can preemptively block him?
Happy Birthday, @POTUS! I would’ve sent real balloons 🎈🎈, but we used them all last week. pic.twitter.com/D57ZzSPblX
— Bill Clinton (@billclinton) August 4, 2016
‘If they wanna be president, they better start acting like a president.’ LOL
The Rage Furby is definitely following a lot of the people who follow me. Here’s his list: twitter.com
If you’re on it, you probably want to block him.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
The Rage Furby is definitely following a lot of the people who follow me. Here’s his list: twitter.com
If you’re on it, you probably want to block him.
And don’t just block him, report him as spam or something.
re: #22 ObserverArt
I was preparing this comment for the last thread when it indicated a new thread started. It goes to a tweet VB put up by Bennie “Brainless” Shapiro after he saw MSNBC posting a screen chyron saying Trump really didn’t see an Iran video.
I am so damn sick of Clinton email bullshit.
If anyone needs a good link to a good fact check site about the 3…yes three goddamn emails in question he is one you can use to pound people over the head with…even if it does no good, show them anyway.
And of those three, 2 were considered by FBI Director Comey as easy to miss and easy to mistake. Even the last of the three is questionable.
As Rep. John Lewis said to Comey (paraphrased) out of 30,000 emails all you found were three emails?
But the media never says anything about that.
Here is the link…
factcheck.org - Revisiting Clinton and Classified Information
Here is basically a summary at the beginning of the article:
YES BUT 30K MISSING EMAILS AND RUSSIANS AND CHINESE AND ISLAMICISTS HACKED HER SERVOR AND STOLD OUR SECRETS!!! TREASON!!!1
https://t.co/7OBs9t7E9M In 2002, Mike Pence took the floor of the House to issue a lengthy diatribe denying the truth of evolution.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) August 4, 2016
re: #27 Charles Johnson
The Rage Furby is definitely following a lot of the people who follow me. Here’s his list: twitter.com
If you’re on it, you probably want to block him.
And, of course, the first account he followed was Michelle Fields.
re: #18 Sir John Barron
Hey, put that Constitution down! We’re the only ones who can fly the flag and wave the Constitution because we’re Patriots!!!
I’ve always said — if you were to sit Republicans down and make them read both the Constitution and the Bible all the way through, they’d demand they all be burned.
re: #31 Timothy Watson
And, of course, the first account he followed was Michelle Fields.
Not creepy at all. Nah.
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.@POTUS, animated on Iran: “We announced these payments in January! Many months ago! There wasn’t a secret. We announced them to all of you”
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) August 4, 2016
This is a story about our broken politics, not about a policy that worked. https://t.co/FOnzy40sRa
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) August 4, 2016
No, this is a story about alleged journalists who are nothing more than stenographers repeating talking points and don’t know how to do actual journalism.
re: #15 Brian J.
Thank you for letting us know, Mr. President. I really think it’d be helpful for us to hear this more often.
Speaking of getting bombed… it’s a fifteen-point lead now, if Marist is to be believed.
According to 538’s pollster grades, Marist gets an A and has a slight (0.7) Republican bias. Still, 15 points feels like an outlier, would need to see some other polls with similar numbers to believe it.
re: #15 Brian J.
Thank you for letting us know, Mr. President. I really think it’d be helpful for us to hear this more often.
Speaking of getting bombed… it’s a fifteen-point lead now, if Marist is to be believed.
Marist is about the highest-rated poll, per 538s breakout.
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I think this nontroversy has Obama pretty pissed.
Probably mostly because he has to explain it to stupid people.
re: #37 makeitstop
I think this nontroversy has Obama pretty pissed.
Probably mostly because he has to explain it to stupid people.
Did Obama explain the payment business, slow enough so that even derpers can understand it?
.@POTUS: Fact that we paid cash is precisely bc “we are so strict in maintaining sanctions and we don’t have a banking relationship” w/Iran
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) August 4, 2016
re: #38 Sir John Barron
Did Obama explain the payment business, slow enough so that even derpers can understand it?
See my #39. Even that explanation may be too complicated for some people.
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
YES BUT CARTLOADS OF CASH!!!!!!!!!!!11
The president is really fed up with the stupidity.
Reporters are giggling as he points out the absurdity of a ‘rigged’ election.
re: #38 Sir John Barron
Did Obama explain the payment business, slow enough so that even derpers can understand it?
Obama is going to be fun to watch for the next few months. I think he’s going to blast a few people. And after Hillary wins in Nov? I;m thinking epic takedowns of Ryan, Mitch, etc. I look forward to.
re: #42 makeitstop
The president is really fed up with the stupidity.
Reporters are giggling as he points out the absurdity of a ‘rigged’ election.
Hope he’ll mention all the BS voter ID shenanigans R’s have been pulling and that the courts have been smacking down.
.@POTUS: “I have one vote. … Ultimately it’s the American people’s decision to make collectively.”
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) August 4, 2016
.@POTUS: “Of course the elections will not be rigged. What does that even mean?”
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) August 4, 2016
.@POTUS calls Trump’s “conspiracy theory” of rigged election “ridiculous. That doesn’t make any sense.”
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) August 4, 2016
re: #38 Sir John Barron
Did Obama explain the payment business, slow enough so that even derpers can understand it?
He explained it very slowly.
Bt you can pretty much see on his face how amazed and disgusted he is with the fact that he actually had to do it.
re: #11 CuriousLurker
LOLOLOL, emphasis mine:
He also got in a fight with then-mayor Ed Koch. It’s quite an entertaining read.
I live a block in from that development. I’m on the 18th floor; I used to have a lovely sweeping view of the river. Now I look out on those buildings; the only way I can see the river is to stand at just the right angle to see a street-width portion.
On the upside, Riverside Park used to end at 72nd St, now it extends down to the cruise-ship docks at 56th. That bit of park is 1-1/2 blocks wide, there’s gazebos and suntanning platforms extending into the river, the pier at 70th has live music 3 days a week and and open-air restaurant, I spend a lot of time there.
.@POTUS reminds that presidential elections are run state-by-state. Many of those states, like TX, are run by Rs
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) August 4, 2016
.@POTUS: If Trump up 10, 15 points on election day and loses, “then maybe he can raise some questions. That doesn’t seem to be the case.”
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) August 4, 2016
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@POTUS: “Of course the elections will not be rigged. What does that even mean?”
— Mike Memoli
Hurr hurr it means blacks and Democrats will vote over and over many times must stop with True the Vote!!!!!!1
re: #49 Sir John Barron
Hurr hurr it means blacks and Democrats will vote over and over many times must stop with True the Vote!!!!!!1
Diebold machines…..
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
POTUS making Trump look ridiculous.
Although Trump is doing that himself already.
.@POTUS: “I obviously have a very strong opinion about the two candidates that are running. One is very positive and one is not so much.”
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) August 4, 2016
Barbara Starr is catching some serious shade right now, asking again about O’s statement on Trump’s lack of fitness to be president.
‘Paraphrasing: ‘I’m pretty sure I answered this question a few days ago, and I stand by what I said.’
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@POTUS calls Trump’s “conspiracy theory” of rigged election “ridiculous. That doesn’t make any sense.”
— Mike Memoli
Uh, well, a major party nominating Trump doesn’t make any sense either, but that’s where we are.
“Just listen to what Mr. Trump has to say and make your own judgment,” says Pres Obama, asked if Trump can be trusted with nuclear weapons.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 4, 2016
.@POTUS: “Of course the elections will not be rigged. What does that even mean?”
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) August 4, 2016
He (Obama) should have pointed out that, coming from Republicans, the definition of a “rigged” election means one they didn’t win.
Cuteness break!
🐾😺🐾😻🎈😽❤️ emergency room … pic.twitter.com/Imo9MomlAl
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) August 4, 2016
shorter obama on trump’s rigged election nonsense -> pic.twitter.com/93yKcf4jc3
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 4, 2016
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I so wish he’d just smiled and said, “Vote your conscience.”
.@POTUS on @realDonaldTrump and access to nuclear weapons: “This is serious business.” #Election2016
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) August 4, 2016
POTUS shares a birthday with somebody else that’s pretty great:
Happy birthday to trumpeter Louis Armstrong, who was born on this day in 1901. https://t.co/h3iuEE21gp pic.twitter.com/4oLN2uYQ9D
— The Met (@metmuseum) August 4, 2016
re: #11 CuriousLurker
Another fun detail —
he bragged in his book that the parcel was worth more than double the assessed value, how he’d fooled the city ha-ha so clever. So the City took him to court, the only evidence they offered was his own book. The judge doubled the assessment, doubled his property tax bill.
Obama just delivered the most epic troll on Trump. Good lord is covering him during the fall campaign gonna be fun
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) August 4, 2016
re: #37 makeitstop
I think this nontroversy has Obama pretty pissed.
Probably mostly because he has to explain it to stupid people.
And sadly, it always is a waste of time because the wingnuts won’t believe any of it anyway…it’s coming from Obama.
All we can hope is enough sensible people hear it and understand it.
re: #46 makeitstop
He explained it very slowly.
Bt you can pretty much see on his face how amazed and disgusted he is with the fact that he actually had to do it.
Just about half the nation he leads have the mental capacity of Cartman on meth.
I sure as hell couldn’t take being in Obama’s position.
re: #22 ObserverArt
I was preparing this comment for the last thread when it indicated a new thread started. It goes to a tweet VB put up by Bennie “Brainless” Shapiro after he saw MSNBC posting a screen chyron saying Trump really didn’t see an Iran video.
I am so damn sick of Clinton email bullshit.
If anyone needs a good link to a good fact check site about the 3…yes three goddamn emails in question he is one you can use to pound people over the head with…even if it does no good, show them anyway.
And of those three, 2 were considered by FBI Director Comey as easy to miss and easy to mistake. Even the last of the three is questionable.
As Rep. John Lewis said to Comey (paraphrased) out of 30,000 emails all you found were three emails?
But the media never says anything about that.
Here is the link…
factcheck.org - Revisiting Clinton and Classified Information
Here is basically a summary at the beginning of the article:
Facts, who needs ‘em?
Amazing watching media ask Obama only about his concerns over Trump handling classified info. Clinton had top secret info on private server!
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 4, 2016
Major Fail:
I wish people who know better would stop pretending they don’t understand why POTUS/admin doesn’t call it ransom money even if it is.
— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) August 4, 2016
Men - Clinton +8
Women - Clinton +20
White - Trump 41/39
Black - Clinton 90/2
Lat - Clinton 55/26
Moderates - Clinton 50/27#McClatchyMarist— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) August 4, 2016
This video of Reince getting the Polltracker iphone alert about the McClatchy poll is priceless. pic.twitter.com/oFZvNF6Uwi
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 4, 2016
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
three subsets at or below the crazification factor. That is, quite frankly, incredibly impressive.
re: #53 makeitstop
Barbara Starr is catching some serious shade right now, asking again about O’s statement on Trump’s lack of fitness to be president.
‘Paraphrasing: ‘I’m pretty sure I answered this question a few days ago, and I stand by what I said.’
Good. The media needs to be confronted about its tendency to view this election as being business as usual.
Trump is the Platonic Ideal of “unqualified for public office”.
in other news:
Organized crime sweep nets 46, including reputed Philadelphia boss “Skinny Joey” Merlino: https://t.co/u3DzMmpWAX pic.twitter.com/o3Q4frfZkB
— AP Eastern U.S. (@APEastRegion) August 4, 2016
Obama internal dialogue: “What? No… I mean, the hell. What even is this.. Sweet Lord man, this is a question? Jesus. Ok, let’s go.”
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 4, 2016
Zeldin is one stupid motherfucker. I’m ashamed that he even lives in the same fucking state that I call home.
President Obama.
Many Americans do not deserve this level of explanation you give for your decisions. You are far too logical and give great detail and most likely it will all fly right over many a haters head.
But this American appreciates it and thanks you for it. I’m going to miss you…as you are truly BIG LEAGUE!!!
If nothing else, Trump has inspired cable news to get creative with their chyrons… pic.twitter.com/hGYEg8NJnE
— On the Media (@onthemedia) August 4, 2016
re: #74 makeitstop
Zeldin is one stupid motherfucker. I’m ashamed that he even lives in the same fucking state that I call home.
It is now an article of RWNJ faith that we paid Iran $400 million in ransom money, expect to hear a lot more about it.
I didn’t think it was even possible for SMOTI to get stupider but he does
Leftist Journalism in America: Reporter,asks former community organizer Obama how confident he is about Trump having the nuclear codes. WOW
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) August 4, 2016
re: #53 makeitstop
Barbara Starr is catching some serious shade right now, asking again about O’s statement on Trump’s lack of fitness to be president.
‘Paraphrasing: ‘I’m pretty sure I answered this question a few days ago, and I stand by what I said.’
I wanted to reach into my TV screen and gently nudge her and ask WTF???
Jim Mikleshevsky (however you spell it) takes his last question in the WH press corps to yell at Obama as to whether he has come up for any new ideas as to how to fight ISIL.
Obama lets out an audible sigh, then patiently answers the question. I do think that he wanted to walk over and smack the shit out of him, though.
re: #21 Stanley Sea
I received the random TSA pre check. Blessed. Orlando airport is crazy.
I question how random the TSA pre-check is anymore. I got it on both legs of my trip to Boston in June. I’ve never gotten it more than on one leg on any trip prior to that.
To recap: the Clinton camp is pausing its broadcast ads in both CO & VA. Super PAC pulling from all CO, much of VA, considering new states.
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) August 4, 2016
Trump better hurry and start advertising in those secret states he brags about.
re: #74 makeitstop
Zeldin is one stupid motherfucker. I’m ashamed that he even lives in the same fucking state that I call home.
I don’t care what a GOP asshat has to say. What irritates me is both-siderist bullshit reporting:
The $400 million payment, which was airlifted the same day Iran released four long-held American prisoners in their custody, was touted as a major revelation this week even though the Obama administration disclosed it in January. Conservatives have charged the secret payment amounts to a point-blank quid pro quo, with the massive ransom pouring into coffers that back state-funded terrorism, while the administration says the repayment was from an incomplete arms deal dating back to 1979.
I’ve emphasized the part where GOP propaganda is repeated as fact by the reporter, despite its being demonstrably false as reported in the previous damn sentence. Wouldn’t it be a miracle if the reporters did their fucking jobs for once? Something like this would be a decent start
The $400 million payment, which was airlifted the same day Iran released four long-held American prisoners in their custody, was touted as a major revelation this week in GOP propaganda even though the Obama administration disclosed it in January. Conservatives have charged the payment amounts to a point-blank quid pro quo (this is false), with the massive ransom pouring into coffers that back state-funded terrorism, while the administration says the repayment was from an incomplete arms deal dating back to 1979 (this is true).
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
Major Fail:
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WTF??? Allen is usually better than that. I swear, this election is making a whole ton of people look really stupid and dishonest. I guess the quest for hits means you have to sell your integrity…if you ever had any.
re: #85 ObserverArt
WTF??? Allen is usually better than that. I swear, this election is making a whole ton of people look really stupid and dishonest. I guess the quest for hits means you have to sell your integrity…if you ever had any.
I know…I’m still rolling my eyes over that one.
He didn’t call it “ransom money” because it ISN’T ransom money. And you probably know that. @jonallendc
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 4, 2016
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
Here’s some more interesting numbers from that poll:
White College Educated voters break for Clinton 48-38. That’s a subset of the population that has typically gone for the GOP in recent years. She also leads 48-40 among voters over the age of 60. Last thing, the poll has Latinos at about 12% of respondents, I’m guessing Latino turnout will be higher and that won’t be a good thing for Trump.
re: #83 Lidane
TL;DR: Trump is toast https://t.co/ibkT7zf5EL
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 4, 2016
And then Obama gives Mikleshevsky a bonus question.
You’re way too classy for this guy, Mr. President.
@goldietaylor Yep. The lethal effect of all this is how badly these numbers are going to suppress Trump’s already poor fundraising hauls.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) August 4, 2016
re: #85 ObserverArt
WTF??? Allen is usually better than that. I swear, this election is making a whole ton of people look really stupid and dishonest. I guess the quest for hits means you have to sell your integrity…if you ever had any.
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
I know…I’m still rolling my eyes over that one.
I don’t know anything about Allen’s bent, but that tweet is so syntactically screwed up that it can mean one thing or its opposite.
:D
Of course they bloody do. Their feet can barely touch the pedals. Cut them some slack. pic.twitter.com/FAm6A1eHj0
— Simon HB (@norock) August 4, 2016
re: #91 goddamnedfrank
So we’ll all get to see if a normal GOP political campaign is really necessary in this era of the Republican Zerg-swarm of angry bigots.
re: #92 Decatur Deb
I don’t know anything about Allen’s bent, but that tweet is so syntactically screwed up that it can mean one thing or its opposite.
I tried to parse it as some sort of snark, but it still just came out as a totally fail.
re: #92 Decatur Deb
I don’t know anything about Allen’s bent, but that tweet is so syntactically screwed up that it can mean one thing or its opposite.
He has worked for I believe Bloomberg, Politico, Vox and even with Debbie Wasserman Schultz. So it is not like he hasn’t been around the game.
re: #96 ObserverArt
He has worked for I believe Bloomberg, Politico, Vox and even with Debbie Wasserman Schultz. So it is not like he hasn’t been around the game.
Did his work for them include writing in English?
WATCH: McCain stammers when asked if he trusts Trump with US nuclear arsenal https://t.co/EMdly1vktK #p2 #uniteblue pic.twitter.com/JguyFtIqZc
— Chad Sarno (@Wanderer19) August 4, 2016
re: #92 Decatur Deb
I don’t know anything about Allen’s bent, but that tweet is so syntactically screwed up that it can mean one thing or its opposite.
Double negatives make everything so much easier to comprehend.
And now brainiac Chuck “I can’t help myself” Todd says Obama came across a touch defensive when asked questions about Iran payments.
Gak!!!
Of course @chucktodd goes with a “bit defensive” on POTUS talk on Iran…Todd is an idiot.
— Nelly B (@psddluva4evah) August 4, 2016
re: #11 CuriousLurker
LOLOLOL, emphasis mine:
He also got in a fight with then-mayor Ed Koch. It’s quite an entertaining read.
Imagine if he had succeeded. Somewhere in an alternate universe, 9/11 was an attack on the Trump Megatower, and he’s ahead in the polls 20 points right now because people remember his leadership after the attack.
Then there’s a time rift and all the multiverse Trumps meet and have to coordinate a massive deal to seal the time hole, like in that one ST:TNG episode…
re: #97 Decatur Deb
Did his work for them include writing in English?
Used too…but I don’t know. He may have decided to go strictly jibberish.
You don’t have to watch it. Just trust me that it’s heart-wrenching:
Full Video: #KorrynGaines 5yo son’s eyewitness account of Baltimore County Police shooting that killed his mother. https://t.co/oEPbiflsD4
— D (@Delo_Taylor) August 4, 2016
whoa - Mike Pence declines to endorse Kelly Ayotte or John McCain in their re-election bids, saying “we need new leadership”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 4, 2016
At #STLV50 with @WhoopiGoldberg! We want to wish a happy birthday to @BarackObama! For you: https://t.co/jQFmjznyjD pic.twitter.com/cez5ZT0YCt
— Nichelle Nichols (@NichelleIsUhura) August 4, 2016
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
You don’t have to watch it. Just trust me that it’s heart-wrenching:
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Kid’s a thug. Why won’t he release his daycare record?
re: #102 Pawn of the Oppressor
Imagine if he had succeeded. Somewhere in an alternate universe, 9/11 was an attack on the Trump Megatower, and he’s ahead in the polls 20 points right now because people remember his leadership after the attack.
Then there’s a time rift and all the multiverse Trumps meet and have to coordinate a massive deal to seal the time hole, like in that one ST:TNG episode…
If that Trump megatower would have actually been built and was part of the attack, there’s probably a better chance that Donald Trump is a name on the memorial than a name on the ballot. I’m guessing his ego would not have allowed him to not have an office and/or apartment there.
re: #102 Pawn of the Oppressor
Imagine if he had succeeded. Somewhere in an alternate universe, 9/11 was an attack on the Trump Megatower, and he’s ahead in the polls 20 points right now because people remember his leadership after the attack.
Then there’s a time rift and all the multiverse Trumps meet and have to coordinate a massive deal to seal the time hole, like in that one ST:TNG episode…
Not even an alternate universe plot can make real leadership from Trump in response to something like 9/11 plausible.
If Trump were ever anywhere near a major terrorist attack, he’d defecate in panic so violently he’d launch himself into the sun.
re: #99 EPR-radar
Double negatives make everything so much easier to comprehend.
I’m writing up a village board meeting article and one of the agenda items was a zoning case where the motion was to approve the zoning commission’s recommendation to deny the application. So voting “aye” meant “nay”.
It’s like ballot initiatives that are worded in such a way that voting “yes” means “no” and “no” means “yes”.
ICYMI: As Trump defends attacks on the Khan family, this was their son’s grave yesterday. https://t.co/ZmLZjrMQiv pic.twitter.com/GyqsOlAGeL
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) August 4, 2016
Note too that the grave markers around Cpt. Khan include Christians, Jews, and Hindus.
All races and creeds and ethnicities have given their lives for the nation.
Trump just sees them as disposable heroes.
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
You don’t have to watch it. Just trust me that it’s heart-wrenching:
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Compare and contrast
Trump ad tries to make viewers think HRC says “we are” raising taxes on middle class by putting words on screen. she actually said “aren’t.”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 4, 2016
re: #107 Decatur Deb
Kid’s a thug. Why won’t he release his daycare record?
If that’s the shooting I’m thinking of, his mother was a sovereign citizen nutbar who was armed and threatening cops, and made the kid stay with her after she was surrounded.
Have they found Chris Christie floating face down in a pool yet? Inquiring minds want to know.
re: #115 Lidane
In the days of DVRs, Netflix, and Hulu, is there any solid return on investment for political TV ads? I mean, just about the only thing that anyone watches live now is sports, right? Isn’t money better spent on GOTV efforts?
re: #116 Pawn of the Oppressor
If that’s the shooting I’m thinking of, his mother was a sovereign citizen nutbar who was armed and threatening cops, and made the kid stay with her after she was surrounded.
Yes, SovCit is a strangely equal-opportunity scam. That’s because it is spread for profit as tax evasion BS by motel-based con artists.
.@NBCNews/@WSJ poll shows @realDonaldTrump getting just 1% of the black vote. ONE. PERCENT.
— Emily Cahn (@CahnEmily) August 4, 2016
re: #74 makeitstop
Zeldin is one stupid motherfucker. I’m ashamed that he even lives in the same fucking state that I call home.
First comment:
Photo of Rep. Zeldin, dreaming of the dacha in southeastern Ukraine that Team Trump promised him…
I’ve been on this Russian subversion kick for about 3 years and I must say that I am delighted to see it finally being moved to the front burner. At first, RWNJs (and some on the left) could shout it down as a kind of McCarthyism in reverse. That precedent is indeed cause for caution. However, as more and more evidence has accumulated the truth has become almost transparently obvious to all but the densest observers (ie Republicans and Russian tools). The evidence of right wing and conspiracy industry collusion with the Kremlin is far better than McCarthy or HUAC ever dreamed of having against American leftists. Trump even has a paid Russian agent, General Flynn, on his staff.
Trump loses double digits to Hillary in November. And he loses the Trump University case after the election. Oh he will explode and it will be glorious.
NBC/WSJ poll drops at 5:55.
At 6, MSNBC goes to the Bloomberg talking heads who… taped at 5 and can’t cover the new poll.
Ugh.
re: #122 GlutenFreeJesus
Trump loses double digits to Hillary in November. And he loses the Trump University case after the election. Oh he will explode and it will be glorious.
Scanners.
As a palate cleanser to all the latest Trump madness, here’s some bears at Katmai NP.
Trump goobers finding out that PA is fool’s gold for the GOP:
Obama won Southeast counties by 9 in ‘12. Here’s Clinton/Trump in new Franklin & Marshall poll pic.twitter.com/ABBEuKXXOx
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) August 4, 2016
re: #124 EPR-radar
I was thinking more along the lines of a watermelon at a Gallagher show.
re: #120 Lidane
Emily Cahn ✔ @CahnEmily
.@NBCNews/@WSJ poll shows @realDonaldTrump getting just 1% of the black vote. ONE. PERCENT.
6:04 PM - 4 Aug 2016
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<extreme snark ahead>
See, this is why we don’t need African Americans voting…they don’t even bother to drag their butts out to vote like good white ‘merican patriots.
<extreme snark off>
Trump Declines To Name Women He’d Put In His Cabinet Besides Daughter Ivanka https://t.co/5FuiUhH4Fu
— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) August 4, 2016
Surrounds himself with nepotistic sycophants, thinks he’s operating a meritocracy. https://t.co/u0p64agyJ1
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) August 4, 2016
weapons grade rationalization
He is egotistical, bombastic, and brash. He often lacks nuance in his statements. Sometimes he blurts out mistaken ideas (such as bombing the families of terrorists) that he later must abandon. He insults people. He can be vindictive when people attack him. He has been slow to disown and rebuke the wrongful words and actions of some angry fringe supporters. He has been married three times and claims to have been unfaithful in his marriages. These are certainly flaws, but I don’t think they are disqualifying flaws in this election.
…
Under President Obama, a liberal federal government has seized more and more control over our lives. But this can change. This year we have an unusual opportunity to defeat Hillary Clinton and the pro-abortion, pro-gender-confusion, anti-religious liberty, tax-and-spend, big government liberalism that she champions. I believe that defeating that kind of liberalism would be a morally right action. Therefore I feel the force of the words of James: “Whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin” (James 4:17).
re: #88 KGxvi
White College Educated voters break for Clinton 48-38.
Texas is in play.
Apparently 56% of white college educated people voted for the Republican nominee in 2012. Using projects.fivethirtyeight.com and then changing just that group to be 55-45 for Clinton, and Texas is just shy of switching to voting for the Democratic candidate.
And these polls still won’t reflect the scheisse-storm of the past couple of days.
Still pushing an outright lie, I see. https://t.co/tj4mywcS3b @gatewaypundit
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 4, 2016
re: #131 Danack
I live in Texas, and while I would love for that to be the case, it just isn’t this cycle. Get back to me in ten years. You have no idea how much she is hated around here, it’s 5X worse than Obama, and I never thought that was possible.
re: #119 Decatur Deb
Yes, SovCit is a strangely equal-opportunity scam. That’s because it is spread for profit as tax evasion BS by motel-based con artists.
JJ MacNab is good to follow on Twitter. She got some coverage during the Malheur insurrection-and-snacks party. She covered the boy’s mother on August 2nd. Apparently the boy’s mother had some ideas roughly akin to the ideological strain of the cop killer in Baton Rouge.
Like anybody who’s ever worked for a bank, I’ve been trained on SovCit payment and title scams, but like everybody else in this crackpot social media world, they’ve apparently decided to double down on the crazy and start getting shooty.
re: #131 Danack
Texas is in play.
Apparently 56% of white college educated people voted for the Republican nominee in 2012. Using projects.fivethirtyeight.com and then changing just that group to be 55-45 for Clinton, and Texas is just shy of switching to voting for the Democratic candidate.
And these polls still won’t reflect the scheisse-storm of the past couple of days.
Not only that, you have to figure that the Latino and Asian/Other vote is also going to see pretty solid movement towards Clinton (not to mention increased turnout).
The budget option in this @wirecutter review of laptop stands is clearly the best. https://t.co/Kd8nvXuLsu pic.twitter.com/C44Hpnjk9x
— J. Kenji López-Alt (@TheFoodLab) August 4, 2016
He wrote the book on top of the stack.
re: #130 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Page after page of compare and contrast on a Trump SCOTUS vs. a Clinton SCOTUS, laced throughout with enough whining about persecution of Christians in the US to gag a maggot. Totally pointless.
Trump’s hypothetical SCOTUS is remarkably irrelevant given the likelihood that POTUS VonClownstick would start both Civil War II and World War III within his first few weeks.
RT @billmon1 Two weeks can be a LONG time in politics — especially if you’re Frank Luntz. pic.twitter.com/YBt4cwfGNi
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) August 4, 2016
re: #134 Frankie Five Angels
I live in Texas, and while I would love for that to be the case, it just isn’t this cycle. Get back to me in ten years. You have no idea how much she is hated around here, it’s 5X worse than Obama, and I never thought that was possible.
California flipped overnight because of Prop 187. In ‘94 Fienstein won her Senate seat 47-45. By 2000 Fienstein won with 55%. Boxer won 48-43 in ‘92 and by ‘96 it was 53-43. Trump could very easily result in the same sort of swings nationally.
re: #139 lawhawk
To be fair, he was right both times.
PUNKS NOT DEAoh wait yes it is never mind #ewr pic.twitter.com/QGQdLMnZ36
— Yo La Tengo (@TheRealYLT) August 4, 2016
re: #134 Frankie Five Angels
I live in Texas, and while I would love for that to be the case, it just isn’t this cycle. Get back to me in ten years. You have no idea how much she is hated around here, it’s 5X worse than Obama, and I never thought that was possible.
It’s true that the white suburban and small town masses hate the Hildabeast with the stench of a million cesspools, but they are not the whole population. Educated people and minorities make a large voting bloc by themselves. A further shift with the former, combined with an all-out GOTV effort, could put Hillary over the top. Additionally, there are a lot of veterans in Texas. The polls showing a solid Trump lead among veterans (12-13 points) also predate the uproar over the abuse of the Khan family. We could see an important shift there as well.
re: #140 KGxvi
California flipped overnight because of Prop 187. In ‘94 Fienstein won her Senate seat 47-45. By 2000 Fienstein won with 55%. Boxer won 48-43 in ‘92 and by ‘96 it was 53-43. Trump could very easily result in the same sort of swings nationally.
It’s worth noting that Prop 187 passed and was struck down by the courts. Meaning that the worst thing that could happen for the GOP is for Trump to actually win, because his administration couldn’t possibly be anything other than an unmitigated disaster.
re: #143 Shiplord Kirel
What about the Gary Johnson effect? Could he pull enough votes from the Trumpster Fire?
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
It’s worth noting that Prop 187 passed and was struck down by the courts. Meaning that the worst thing that could happen for the GOP is for Trump to actually win, because his administration couldn’t possibly be anything other than an unmitigated disaster.
This is very true. And it passed rather overwhelmingly 59-41. I don’t have any data to back it up, but I suspect there were more than a few voters in California who came to regret their decision to vote for Prop 187.
As far as the possibility of a Trump administration, all I’m going to say is that I recently got a passport… you know, just in case.
re: #141 Ubiq
Yes, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to predict a post-convention bounce. Trump got the equivalent of a dead-cat bounce. Since it barely lasted a week. And polls basically had them within the MOE.
Hillary not only came out of the DNC with a bounce, but she’s adding to her lead.
The polls are showing her pulling away.
And there’s no way Trump can alter his campaign posture since he has no other option. He’s all in on the xenophobia/nativist bigotry.
Latino celebrities explain why voting is crucial in “Habla Y Vota” video https://t.co/oVbjV4tbSt\
— HP LatinoVoices (@LatinoVoices) August 4, 2016
“For the first time in history, there’s a new rule,” explains journalist Jorge Ramos in the video. “No one, absolutely no one, can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote.”
re: #147 lawhawk
Yes, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to predict a post-convention bounce. Trump got the equivalent of a dead-cat bounce. Since it barely lasted a week. And polls basically had them within the MOE.
Hillary not only came out of the DNC with a bounce, but she’s adding to her lead.
The polls are showing her pulling away.
And there’s no way Trump can alter his campaign posture since he has no other option. He’s all in on the xenophobia/nativist bigotry.
I think the lead’s going to shrink a little; it can’t help but do that. Hope folks don’t panic, though I’m sure Trump will crow about it…
Speaking of CA politics, apparently Bernie Sanders did the environment a favor in the Bay Area. We had Prop AA on the ballot-a parcel tax to be used to restore and maintain SF Bay. Probably because there was an actual presidential primary race that people cared about, Dems turned out in sufficient numbers to pass it with 70% of the vote.
Seen the polls, and now this. Not a bad day at all
.@WFTV: George Zimmerman punched in face at Fla. restaurant after reportedly bragging about killing Trayvon Martin. https://t.co/Iil5k730oE
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) August 4, 2016
re: #151 Great White Snark
Seen the polls, and now this. Not a bad day at all
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Let’s apply some operant conditioning, shall we?
re: #147 lawhawk
Yes, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to predict a post-convention bounce. Trump got the equivalent of a dead-cat bounce. Since it barely lasted a week. And polls basically had them within the MOE.
Hillary not only came out of the DNC with a bounce, but she’s adding to her lead.
The polls are showing her pulling away.
And there’s no way Trump can alter his campaign posture since he has no other option. He’s all in on the xenophobia/nativist bigotry.
You get one shot at an introduction to the POTUS race and Trump has had his introduction. People who keep saying he has a chance to turn this around before September are whistling past the graveyard. His numbers may improve a bit…but he has branded himself as effectively as Romney did with his 47% remark. This is going to stick. No matter what he says from here on out, and even if he somehow manages to not have another public meltdown, he has I am a giant walking pustulant scrotum tattooed to his forehead.
re: #134 Frankie Five Angels
I live in Texas, and while I would love for that to be the case, it just isn’t this cycle. Get back to me in ten years.
This might help:
We are setting a goal to register 3 million more American citizens to vote: https://t.co/eLBTOMvqvk
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 3, 2016
Also, lol:
We know a guy with a binder, @realDonaldTrump. (He might not take your calls, though.) https://t.co/dxmFcISmaz
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 4, 2016
I’ll just leave this here. pic.twitter.com/bIiUnHT3CJ
— Alan Cooper (@MrAlanCooper) August 4, 2016
re: #145 Interesting Times
What about the Gary Johnson effect? Could he pull enough votes from the Trumpster Fire?
Quite possibly.
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re: #151 Great White Snark
Seen the polls, and now this. Not a bad day at all
.@WFTV: George Zimmerman punched in face at Fla. restaurant after reportedly bragging about killing Trayvon Martin. wftv.com
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) August 4, 2016
Just wondering… Does it bother ANY #Democrat that Obama sent $400 million ransom to the Iranian regime for a deal they never signed?
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) August 4, 2016
No, because
1) it is not ransom
2) It is Iran’s own money that they paid in 1979 for military equipment https://t.co/YfHyS5EtWv— (((Beelzebabushka))) (@viciousbabushka) August 4, 2016
re: #155 jaunte
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Chuck Todd: Obama nervous and indecisive when talking about his age.
re: #151 Great White Snark
Seen the polls, and now this. Not a bad day at all
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Now, if only Buzz Aldrin could meet another Moon landing denier…….
re: #151 Great White Snark
Seen the polls, and now this. Not a bad day at all
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Guy just seems to love trouble. Evil fuck.
re: #158 The Vicious Babushka
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A link to send to anyone who thinks the Iran payment was a secret. Statement by the President Granted it’s around paragraph 17, but it was in a press release.
re: #161 HappyWarrior
Guy just seems to love trouble. Evil fuck.
George Zimmermann needs to find a way to die that doesn’t involve anyone else in his mess.
re: #162 calochortus
A link to send to anyone who thinks the Iran payment was a secret. Statement by the President Granted it’s around paragraph 17, but it was in a press release.
Anything not programmed into them by the operators at Fox News is a secret for wingnuts.
re: #134 Frankie Five Angels
I live in Texas, and while I would love for that to be the case, it just isn’t this cycle. Get back to me in ten years. You have no idea how much she is hated around here, it’s 5X worse than Obama, and I never thought that was possible.
While true, don’t discount the new voter ID rulings here in Texas and the increased motivation from the Dems to do GOTV in Latino and African-American areas.
I won’t suggest for a second that she’ll win here, but she may end up doing a lot better than anyone expects, especially if the goal is to stop Trump.
re: #149 gwangung
I think the lead’s going to shrink a little; it can’t help but do that. Hope folks don’t panic, though I’m sure Trump will crow about it…
True, but I also think we are going to get an ex-smokers effect.
To switch from Trump loving/Hillary hating to supporting Hillary is a big deal for people, when they mentally make that switch, they often become more than a supporter, but an advocate. Like the ex smoker who spends their time trying to convince others to stop.
If this is the case I can see the bounce setting. If the nub-fingered-fuckwort has pissed of people enough to change, what can do to redeem them. The old adage of having to work 5 times as hard to win back am ex customer probably comes into play. Couple this with narrative effects, and Hillary’s GOTV efforts….
re: #165 Lidane
While true, don’t discount the new voter ID rulings here in Texas and the increased motivation from the Dems to do GOTV in Latino and African-American areas.
I won’t suggest for a second that she’ll win here, but she may end up doing a lot better than anyone expects, especially if the goal is to stop Trump.
The Democrats need to push a bit everywhere. Even if Texas and/or the House won’t go blue this cycle, picking off a GOP representative here and there is well worth the attempt.
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
Major Fail:
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My understanding of this whole “ransom” thing is:
Iran paid for products from us but a delivery of those products never happened.
Been under litigation for YEARS.
We now gave them back THEIR money that we had been sitting on.
So if this is correct, WE didn’t pay any ransom at all. Iran did to themselves.
Charles Pierce among the true believers:
“…oh, the things I learned. I learned that Elizabeth Warren used “affirmative action” to pay for her college education, which must have been quite a thing, since Senator Professor Warren graduated from the University of Houston in 1970, before there was affirmative action anywhere. I heard a deep dive into the international conspiracy of liberal fire marshals. I also learned that the Obamas and the Clintons really hate each other because the president stole the 2008 nomination from HRC through some shenanigans with ACORN, and that’s the reason HRC was not named vice president, because the president knew that, if he picked her, she would have him killed. Oh, the things I learned.”
esquire.com
Jesus.
A tweet put out & taken down by #Riverside Co. GOP has voters on both sides calling it distasteful. Story at 4 & 6 pic.twitter.com/HL6kmaVAlv
— Leticia Juarez (@ABC7Leticia) August 4, 2016
Stockton mayor arrested; charges include crimes against children
This is guy who had his gun stolen, didn’t report it, and the gun was later used in a killing. That isn’t what he was arrested for.
ILVER LAKE — Mayor Anthony Silva was arrested this morning at his Mayor’s Youth Camp and charged with one felony and three misdemeanors involving minors one year ago during an annual summer camp he manages for 100 underprivileged children and teens.
The charges revolve around his involvement in a strip poker game, according to Amador County District Attorney’s office officials.
Silva, 42, also has been charged with a felony on suspicion of making an audio recording of the game and misdemeanors alleging he provided alcohol to a minor, contributed to the delinquency of a minor and cruelty to a child by endangering his or her health.
My mother is a Texan who I just don’t talk politics with anymore. She’s been a hard Republican for years, driven mostly by religious/social issues. And she hates Hillary Clinton with the passion of a white hot sun.
Today, she called me to check on her newly born grandson, and in the course of the conversation, she confessed that she’s probably voting for Clinton because Donald Trump is…. Donald Trump. I even told her that, as a Texan, she could probably vote Johnson with a clear conscience, but she wants to send a message that Trump is unacceptable by any measure. She then went off on the GOP congress for doing nothing about Zika.
I realize this is anecdotal, but I hung up the phone saying ‘this election may be a bigger wave than I originally anticipated’.
re: #170 Charles Johnson
Distasteful? That’s all?
“Distasteful?” It’s way beyond that. This is dangerously insane. https://t.co/whAKGoen1u
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 4, 2016
re: #153 Scottishdragon
You get one shot at an introduction to the POTUS race and Trump has had his introduction. People who keep saying he has a chance to turn this around before September are whistling past the graveyard. His numbers may improve a bit…but he has branded himself as effectively as Romney did with his 47% remark. This is going to stick. No matter what he says from here on out, and even if he somehow manages to not have another public meltdown, he has I am a giant walking pustulant scrotum tattooed to his forehead.
Even the Bloomberg twins are saying with a 15 point lead Trump may not be able to close that large a gap. His only hope is to pull a rabbit out of his hat during the debates.
I am not going to believe anything until about 11:00 pm on November 8, 2016.
But I am going to watch all the Republicans running around with their hair on fire.
Oh Yeah! Going to watch that big league.
re: #149 gwangung
I think the lead’s going to shrink a little; it can’t help but do that. Hope folks don’t panic, though I’m sure Trump will crow about it…
In the meantime these polls are inflicting irreparable damage to Trump’s fundraising and GOTV efforts. I also suspect that just like 2012 the polls are significantly underestimating minority turnout, especially because the conventional wisdom among (mostly white) pollsters is that with Obama off the ticket black voters will be less inclined to go to the polls. The RCP final average of polls in 2012 underestimated Obama’s support by 3.2 points, which is significant because that was right at or beyond the margin of error in most cases, and certainly way beyond what should’ve been the presumable tighter aggregate MoE.
re: #135 Pawn of the Oppressor
JJ MacNab is good to follow on Twitter. She got some coverage during the Malheur insurrection-and-snacks party. She covered the boy’s mother on August 2nd. Apparently the boy’s mother had some ideas roughly akin to the ideological strain of the cop killer in Baton Rouge.
Like anybody who’s ever worked for a bank, I’ve been trained on SovCit payment and title scams, but like everybody else in this crackpot social media world, they’ve apparently decided to double down on the crazy and start getting shooty.
MacNab is great. I go to her timeline every once in a while so memory of the Malheur screwup doesn’t dissipate. (She was working on an organized Field Guide to the Nutjobs when the Bundys broke loose, but might have been overwhelmed by the flood of new derp.)
re: #177 goddamnedfrank
In the meantime these polls are inflicting irreparable damage to Trump’s fundraising and GOTV efforts. I also suspect that just like 2012 the polls are significantly underestimating minority turnout, especially because the conventional wisdom among (mostly white) pollsters is that with Obama off the ticket black voters will be less inclined to go to the polls. The RCP final average of polls in 2012 underestimated Obama’s support by 3.2 points, which is significant because that was right at or beyond the margin of error in most cases, and certainly way beyond what should’ve been the presumable tighter aggregate MoE.
I agree. There’s a lot of assuming among mostly white pollsters that minority voters especially African-Americans aren’t as motivated to vote without Obama at the top of the ticket.
re: #170 Charles Johnson
Jesus.
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Hey, I grew up in the Inland Empire and it is sun blasted concrete, meth, despair and batshit crazy conservatives.
Oh, and industrial warehouse porn studios.
re: #179 HappyWarrior
I agree. There’s a lot of assuming among mostly white pollsters that minority voters especially African-Americans aren’t as motivated to vote without Obama at the top of the ticket.
With the unashamed bigotry of the campaign this year I could see even greater enthusiasm to vote from POC. Vote for Obama, yeah historic claims versus “What the fuckety-fuck is going on???”
re: #112 lawhawk
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Note too that the grave markers around Cpt. Khan include Christians, Jews, and Hindus.
All races and creeds and ethnicities have given their lives for the nation.
Trump just sees them as disposable
heroes.
FIFY. Trump doesn’t see heroes anywhere. Except when he looks in the mirror.
re: #151 Great White Snark
Hard to know what goes on in Zimmerman’s head, but evidently he feels he was at risk of losing his crown of “biggest piece of shit” to Trump
— (((Danielle))) (@abradacabla) August 4, 2016
re: #182 451_Montag
With the unashamed bigotry of the campaign this year I could see even greater enthusiasm to vote from POC. Vote for Obama, yeah historic claims versus “What the fuckety-fuck is going on???”
Plus I think so many ignore that she’s genuinely well liked in the African-American community. My brothers who supported Bernie had no idea about that and thus were stumped when Bernie lost big to her in that group. Plus, you have African-American women and women in general who will be excited to vote for the first woman Presidential nominee.
re: #118 KGxvi
In the days of DVRs, Netflix, and Hulu, is there any solid return on investment for political TV ads? I mean, just about the only thing that anyone watches live now is sports, right? Isn’t money better spent on GOTV efforts?
People who don’t watch live TV are people who read blogs and social media; if they’re at all interested in politics, they click on the ads. Candidates don’t have the expense of airtime, so they can produce three times as many ads. If their social media team is good, they get a *lot* of benefit from them. I love Hillary’s “a word from your potential next President” spots that have been (obviously copied from an anti-Bush Letterman bit), and we all remember Bernie’s awesome Simon&Garfunkel “America” spot.
re: #179 HappyWarrior
I agree. There’s a lot of assuming among mostly white pollsters that minority voters especially African-Americans aren’t as motivated to vote without Obama at the top of the ticket.
White people, especially white males, often take an intrinsically myopic view of identity politics. Too many of us find it easy to either dismiss minority thought processes or pigeonhole them into simplistic patterns, without even trying to imagine how we’d react if put in the same place. We don’t credit other groups with the intelligence to identify and act in their own self interest. If nothing else it speaks to the deteriorating effects being in the dominant sociological position has on perception.
re: #188 goddamnedfrank
White people, especially white males, often take an intrinsically myopic view of identity politics. Too many of us find it easy to either dismiss minority thought processes or pigeonhole them into simplistic patterns, without even trying to imagine how we’d react if put in the same place. We don’t credit other groups with the intelligence to identify and act in their own self interest. If nothing else it speaks to the deteriorating effects being in the dominant sociological position has on perception.
Agreed.
re: #170 Charles Johnson
That image is so common on III Patriot sites that it’s seen as a cliche. I think there’s a t-shirt.
re: #177 goddamnedfrank
In the meantime these polls are inflicting irreparable damage to Trump’s fundraising and GOTV efforts. I also suspect that just like 2012 the polls are significantly underestimating minority turnout, especially because the conventional wisdom among (mostly white) pollsters is that with Obama off the ticket black voters will be less inclined to go to the polls. The RCP final average of polls in 2012 underestimated Obama’s support by 3.2 points, which is significant because that was right at or beyond the margin of error in most cases, and certainly way beyond what should’ve been the presumable tighter aggregate MoE.
I really don’t think it likely that black turnout will be lower in 2016 than in 2008 or 2012. Minority voters in a democracy tend to be well aware of who their enemies are.
It’s not even that they dislike and fear Trump. White voters even white liberals often can’t understand why Clinton is liked by them whereas someone like Bernie wasn’t as well as received. There was a point made in the article that minority voters are much more pragmatic by nature. They’re not less liberal than their white counterparts but they’re less prone to see compromise as a betrayal too.
re: #188 goddamnedfrank
White people, especially white males, often take an intrinsically myopic view of identity politics. Too many of us find it easy to either dismiss minority thought processes or pigeonhole them into simplistic patterns, without even trying to imagine how we’d react if put in the same place. We don’t credit other groups with the intelligence to identify and act in their own self interest. If nothing else it speaks to the deteriorating effects being in the dominant sociological position has on perception.
Agreed. The Palin VP pick in 2008 was a perfect example. The He-Man woman haters club really thought it would make a difference to put a woman on the GOP ticket.
re: #22 ObserverArt
Saved for future use. I’ll wear it out.
re: #191 EPR-radar
I really don’t think it likely that black turnout will be lower in 2016 than in 2008 or 2012. Minority voters in a democracy tend to be well aware of who their enemies are.
Most demographics don’t wake up and realize they have real political power to flex only to go back to sleep. Soon everyone will understand that attaining the Presidency is metaphysically impossible without going through black, hispanic and asian voters.
re: #186 HappyWarrior
Plus I think so many ignore that she’s genuinely well liked in the African-American community. My brothers who supported Bernie had no idea about that and thus were stumped when Bernie lost big to her in that group. Plus, you have African-American women and women in general who will be excited to vote for the first woman Presidential nominee.
I had a meeting today with three African American women. One is from Miami, one from Cleveland and one from Columbus. They all know each other through business connections and my contact, the lady from Columbus wanted me to meet them.
We were all chatting and something was said about an African American issue and I said “that sounds like something Trump would think.” The two out of town women stopped and gave me some serious side-eye.
Then the lady from Cleveland said “uh uh…no, we are not going to talk about that.”
I quickly said…oh no, you misunderstand I am not a Trump supporter I was just joking. The Columbus lady, my client. said “yeah, he just told me earlier he went to the Clinton Kaine rally here the other day.”
And then they smiled and we all went back to our discussion.
There seems to be no room for Trump in the minds of these African American women. None.
Breitbart exposes another horrible scandal: Seems the Democrats are actually trying to defeat Trump and move society past his hateful “movement.”
NYT: Left wants to destroy Trump’s movement, not just beat Trump (freep re-post)
Democrats have a new goal: not just to defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump in the November election, but also to “destroy” the movement behind him.
The New York Times reports Thursday that Democrats, encouraged by Trump’s struggles to deal with the controversy surrounding Khizr Khan, hope to press their advantage to “squash Mr. Trump’s movement.”
The Times cites David Plouffe, an Obama adviser-turned-Silicon Valley lobbyist, urging Democrats to “destroy” Trump and “his kind.”
Recently, California’s Lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom, made similar remarks, saying that even if Trump won, his campaign marked “newsom beginning of the end for gop” for the Republican Party.
Yet they will not acknowledge their own party’s well-documented attempt to re-elect Lincoln and destroy the Confederacy.
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re: #197 Shiplord Kirel
Breitbart exposes another horrible scandal: Seems the Democrats are actually trying to defeat Trump and move society past his hateful “movement.”
NYT: Left wants to destroy Trump’s movement, not just beat Trump (freep re-post)
Yet they will not acknowledge their own party’s well-documented attempt to re-elect Lincoln and destroy the Confederacy.
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Hell yeah I Want his hateful movemtn destroyed. I have no problem admitting that. HE’s created the largest fascist movement ever in our coutnry.
re: #188 goddamnedfrank
White people, especially white males, often take an intrinsically myopic view of identity politics. Too many of us find it easy to either dismiss minority thought processes or pigeonhole them into simplistic patterns, without even trying to imagine how we’d react if put in the same place. We don’t credit other groups with the intelligence to identify and act in their own self interest. If nothing else it speaks to the deteriorating effects being in the dominant sociological position has on perception.
I was very fortunate to have grown up in a mixed neighborhood back in the late 50s through the turbulent 60s. Many of my friends were African Americans and I got to spend a lot of time in all their homes having snacks or dinner or just hanging out.
You know what I learned?
They are people just like other people. In some ways nicer and more wise because of the shit they had to put up with.
It didn’t matter how much money or stuff they had (it wasn’t a rich neighborhood, lower middle class on the average)…they were people, they were proud and they were warm.
re: #125 lawhawk
As a palate cleanser to all the latest Trump madness, here’s some bears at Katmai NP.
🐾😺🐾😻🎈😽❤️ summer at it’s best … pic.twitter.com/mvWPYYw72A
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) August 4, 2016
Dropped this on the dead thread. Here it is again because it’s cool:
The teenage eagle huntress, once pictured here, is the subject of a new documentary film.
re: #198 HappyWarrior
Hell yeah I Want his hateful movemtn destroyed. I have no problem admitting that. HE’s created the largest fascist movement ever in our coutnry.
True enough: but unfortunately, even if Trumpofascism is “destroyed” there are still going to be a lot of disgruntled would-be fascists out there after the election.
re: #179 HappyWarrior
I agree. There’s a lot of assuming among mostly white pollsters that minority voters especially African-Americans aren’t as motivated to vote without Obama at the top of the ticket.
Demonstrably wrong for Hispanic voters. Irrelevant, I think, for Asian American voters. And African American women are THE most reliable voter bloc out there. And Trump insults all of the voters, to the point of existential concern.
re: #157 TedStriker
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Stockton mayor arrested; charges include crimes against children
This is guy who had his gun stolen, didn’t report it, and the gun was later used in a killing. That isn’t what he was arrested for.
From what I’ve heard lately, he sounds like a real winner.
Perp walk him and put him under the jail.
re: #118 KGxvi
In the days of DVRs, Netflix, and Hulu, is there any solid return on investment for political TV ads? I mean, just about the only thing that anyone watches live now is sports, right? Isn’t money better spent on GOTV efforts?
Most people still watch the tv as it happens. And even if they record, they don’t always forward through commercials.
re: #132 freetoken
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re: #176 ObserverArt
Even the Bloomberg twins are saying with a 15 point lead Trump may not be able to close that large a gap. His only hope is to pull a rabbit out of his hat during the debates.
I am not going to believe anything until about 11:00 pm on November 8, 2016.
But I am going to watch all the Republicans running around with their hair on fire.
Oh Yeah! Going to watch that big league.
Last I heard Trump is going to bypass the debates - so the rabbit isn’t coming out of that hat
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